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Women In Love: Heroines In Verse
Various
Phoenix
ISBN : 9780460882132
This unique anthology presents depictions of female figures in a wide range of English verse - narrative, dramatic and lyric, original and translated - from the Middle Ages to the late nineteenth century. The emphasis is on the variety of women's ...
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Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson
Phoenix
ISBN : 9780753816578
One of the great Victorians poets, Tennyson's genius is expressed through the precision and delicacy of the language of his lyrical poems.
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Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Phoenix
ISBN : 9780460878098
Poems for children, ballards for his friends in the South Seas, poetic tales of Scotland - a selection of the poetry Stevenson wrote all his life.
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Ovid
Ovid
Phoenix
ISBN : 9780460879422
Rome's greatest poet, famous for his love elegies, and his narrative poem, "Metamorphoses".
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R. S. Thomas - Everyman's Poetry
R S Thomas
Phoenix
ISBN : 9780460878111
R. S. Thomas (1913- 2000) was born in Cardiff. He studied classics, then theology and, after ordination, served six rural Welsh parishes for most of his life. His first book of poems was published in 1946. He won the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry ...
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Oscar Wilde - Everyman's Poetry
Oscar Wilde
Phoenix
ISBN : 9780460878036
Renowned for his wicked wit and bons mots, Wilde also had a deep understanding of the human condition - as revealed with moving simplicity in THE BALLARD OF READING GOAL.
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John Skelton - Everyman's Poetry
John Skelton
Phoenix
ISBN : 9780460877961
Skelton is probably the greatest unknown poet of English literature. The outspoken tutor of the future Henry VIII,Skelton was an idiosyncratic genius whose poetry defies rules and boundaries....
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Walter Ralegh - Everyman's Poetry
Walter Ralegh
Phoenix
ISBN : 9780460879941
Sir Walter Ralegh (1554-1618) made his name in the court of Elizabeth I through his naval exploits. Constantly troubled by the vaguaries of court,Sir Walter fell in and out of favour with Queen Elizabeth before being imprisoned by her successor, ......
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